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As demand for computing skyrockets, access to energy has become the defining bottleneck in the AI infrastructure race. While leading tech companies invest billions in speculative, long-term solutions that may take decades to arrive, GridCARE's Energize™ platform uses physics-based AI to identify and activate gigawatts of hidden capacity in today's electric grid - enabling hyperscalers, data center developers, and utilities to power AI infrastructure years sooner than conventional approaches and without costly upgrades.\nFounded at Stanford's Doerr School of Sustainability, GridCARE has assembled a world-class team spanning power systems, AI, and infrastructure, and is backed by leading climate-tech and deep-tech investors.\nAt GridCARE, you will:\nWork at the intersection of AI, energy, and infrastructure - the foundation of the next industrial revolution.\nPartner with hyperscalers, developers, and utilities on high-impact, real-world deployments.\nHelp shape a more abundant, efficient, and resilient energy future for the digital era.\nJoin a company defining a new category - Power Acceleration for AI.\nReceive competitive compensation, equity, and benefits in a fast-growth, mission-driven environment.\nLearn more about GridCARE:\nTechCrunch: GridCARE thinks more than 100 GW of data-center capacity is hiding in the grid\n\nUtility Dive: Portland General Electric invests in AI-powered flexibility to speed data-center connection\n\nGridCARE Raises $64 Million Series A to Create a New Category: Power Acceleration\n\nGridCARE Named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer for AI Power Innovation\n\nJob Description\nWe're looking for a product engineer with infrastructure instincts and a platform mindset. You'll build a cloud-based system that manages and operates data centers for some of the largest AI compute providers in the world, the kind of infrastructure that powers the leading cloud and chip companies driving the AI boom. You'll be the one owning the architecture, the decisions, and how it runs in production. Reliability isn't optional. When it's live, it has to stay live, stay accurate, and update safely without ever putting a customer's infrastructure at risk.\nThe role is best suited for an experienced Senior to Staff-level engineer who can independently architect, build, and operate mission-critical backend systems in production. What matters most is depth: real experience in architecting, implementing, tuning, and debugging real time systems that have to run reliably in production, and genuine curiosity about growing that depth into broader platform and infrastructure ownership as GridCARE scales.\nResponsibilities\nBuild a cloud native backend platform that is reliable, real time, scalable, and secure, including:\nTime series data storage and retrieval\n\nReal time streaming and event processing\n\nIntegrations with simulation, forecasting, optimization, and market modules\n\nDesign for continuous deployment and safe updates to live, mission critical infrastructure, so systems keep running without disruption or unexpected side effects.\n\nLead code quality and engineering excellence: automated testing, continuous deployment, CI/CD pipeline development, performance tuning, and system observability.\n\nOwn architecture decisions with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance, cybersecurity, and suitability for on premises control center deployments.\n\nCollaborate across disciplines, working alongside data scientists, power systems engineers, and DevOps teams to bring AI driven solutions from prototype to production in mission critical environments.\n\nOwn services end to end, from design through deployment and ongoing operation.\n\nQualifications\nRequired\n8+ years of experience architecting, implementing, and operating cloud native, real-time backend systems that are highly available, reliable, secure, and scalable.\n\nStrong software architecture, distributed systems, concurrency, and security fundamentals.\n\nProficiency in at least one backend language, e.g., Python.\n\nStrong experience with REST/gRPC API design and event-driven architectures.\n\nExperience with time series data, real time streaming, and databases across relational and non relational systems (e.g., Kafka, MQTT, TimescaleDB, or similar).\n\nHands-on experience with containerization (Docker), orchestration (Kubernetes), CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and production operations.\n\nExperience with AI assisted development tools such as Cursor, CodeRabbit, Claude, GitHub Copilot, or similar.\n\nStrong collaboration and communication skills, comfortable prioritizing and working cross functionally in a startup environment with limited guidance and evolving requirements.\n\nPreferred\nSomeone who's passionate about making a real difference in the world.\n\nAn entrepreneurial self starter with a focus on scalable, secure, and maintainable solutions.\n\nBackground in energy, climate tech, power systems, or other complex infrastructure domains, including grid operations.\n\nExperience with industrial telemetry systems such as SCADA or Ignition.\n\nLocation\nThis is a hybrid, in-office role based in Redwood City, California. 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